The US company has also acknowledged for the first time that 137 workers were poisoned at a Chinese firm making its products and said less than a third of the facilities it audited were complying with its code on working hours.

Here’s more in the report: multiple suicides at a supplier; a decrease in compliance on working hours of a max of, get this, 60 hours a week; only 57% compliance with codes to prevent injuries (and how minimal were they?). 137 workers were poisoned by n-hexane. This is what is known, how much slips by?

This is the cost of cheap manufacture in a foreign jurisdiction, where laws differ and oversight is more difficult.

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